Gender identities and practices: Interpreting women entrepreneurs' narratives

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 384-404

  García, María Cristina Díaz ^a   Welter, Friederike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

entrepreneurship; gender; identity; status; womanhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878177101     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242611422829     Document Type: Article

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